Monetary Policy as Compensatory Power? An Institutionalist Approach to the Eurozone Crisis

Javier Arribas and Luis Cardenas del Rey

Journal of Economic Issues, 2018, vol. 52, issue 4, 987-1009

Abstract: In this article, we study the relationship between monetary policy and the socio-institutional framework. Specifically, we examine the economic policy response to the debt crisis of the Eurozone, applying institutional economics from two perspectives: the theory of social power and the endogenous money supply. The research question is whether monetary policy can be characterized as a countervailing power exercised by European institutions with respect to the member countries. Fiscal and monetary policies have been interpreted through these sources and types of power, as proposed by Galbraith, by distinguishing between those types of power that have had a permanent versus a conjunctural character. We conclude that European Quantitative Easing can be characterized as having been a countervailing power. All of this has strengthened European institutional power despite having been manifested in the context of an economic and financial crisis.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1080/00213624.2018.1527582

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